Monument record MLI54189 - Rand medieval settlement

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Rand medieval settlement

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GOOD MOATED SITE NW OF CHURCH WITH PRONOUNCED DITCH AND BANK ON NE UNDER PASTURE. {1}{2} A HOMESTEAD MOAT. AMORPHOUS EARTHWORKS IN ADJACENT FIELDS CONSTITUTE EARLY FIELD BANKS AND MUCH SURFACE QUARRYING. THERE IS NO SURFACE EVIDENCE OF STEADINGS. {3} DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH IS DIFFICULT AS RAND IS ALWAYS TIED IN WITH FULNETBY AND 'HELETHORPE'. THE NORMAN EVIDENCE FROM THE CHURCH SUGGESTS AN EARLY DATE FOR THE VILL OF RAND. THERE WERE 45 TAX PAYERS IN 1327. THE N AISLE OF THE CHURCH WAS DEMOLISHED IN 1783 AS IT WAS 'IN SO RUINOUS A STATE IT MUST BE TAKEN DOWN: THE SAID CHURCH IS MUCH LARGER THAN NECESSARY TO CONTAIN THE PARISHIONERS AND INHABITANTS'. BY THE 19TH CENTURY THE POPULATION HAD DISPERSED INTO SCATTERED FARMS. {4}{5}{6}, HTM 20M Rand was documented in the late 11th century as a manor of Wragby, but during the late 12th century a separate manor was established here by the Burdet family, who retained it until the mid 14th century. During this period the population of the village increased and a planned expansion took place, while part of the area of the earlier settlement was enclosed within the manorial complex. From the late 15th century the population began to decline, probably due to enclosure for sheep pasture. By 1563 there were only 7 households in the village and, by the early 19th century, just one. The remains of the medieval village, and the ridge and furrow of its open fields, survive as a series of substantial earthworks. The core of the village lies along a natural ridge running approximately east-west. The buried remains of the earliest part of the settlement are located immediately around the church of St Oswald. {10}

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  •  Scheduling Record: HBMC. AM 7. SAM 136.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. RAND. TF 17 NW B,1975, RWH.
  •  Index: OS CARD INDEX. RAND. TF 17 NW 1,1964, SEAMAN B H.
  •  Aerial Photograph: J.K.S. St Joseph. 1945-79. Cambridge University Collection. LH76,1953, .
  •  Aerial Photograph: J.K.S. St Joseph. 1945-79. Cambridge University Collection. LH77,1953, .
  •  Unpublished Document: Paul Everson. 1991. PARISH FILE. RAND. -.
  •  Aerial Photograph: 1946-98. RCHME. 2380/14-19,1985, .
  •  Bibliographic Reference: P.L. Everson, C.C. Taylor and C.J. Dunn. 1991. Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire. P 153; FIG 25, 33, 112.
  •  Map: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1992-1996. National Mapping Programme. TF1079:LI.551.1.1-13,1994, .
  •  Scheduling Record: English Heritage. 1999. Revised scheduling document 22763. MPP 23.

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Grid reference Centred TF 1074 7913 (551m by 482m) Estimated from Sources
Civil Parish RAND, WEST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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